Eclipse Series 36: THREE WICKED MELODRAMAS FROM GAINSBOROUGH PICTURES: ARLISS, Leslie: The Wicked Lady (1945)
ARLISS, Leslie (United Kingdom)
The Wicked Lady [1945]
Eclipse Series 36
DVD
The Wicked Lady [1945]
Eclipse Series 36
DVD
Margaret Lockwood devours the screen as a tightly wound seventeenth-century beauty with loose morals, who steals her best friend's wealthy fiancé on the eve of their wedding. And that's only the beginning of this piece of pulp from director Leslie Arliss -- there are no depths to which this sinful woman won't sink. James Mason costars, and nearly steals the movie, as a highwayman with whom our antiheroine becomes entangled. This nasty, subversive treat was the most commercially successful of all the Gainsborough melodramas.
104 minutes
B&W
Monaural
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writers
Leslie Arliss was 44 when he directed The Wicked Lady.
From the novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall.
Screenplay by Arliss.
Additional dialogue by Gordon Glennon and Aimée Stuart.
Other Arliss films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 36: The Man in Grey (1943)
The Film
Other Arliss films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 36: The Man in Grey (1943)
The Film
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